Self Preservation in an Atomic Attack (1950, 44.2MB, 17.41 min)
A real winner from the Prelinger Archives, this film is
seventeen funny and frightening minutes of useless
disinformation from the American government.
Category Archives: historical
Variations V – John Cage
Variations V (1965, 7.5MB, 2:22 min)
‘John Cage made ‘Variations V’ in 1965 for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
He and David Tudor settled on two systems for the sound to be affected by movement:
directional photocells aimed at the stage lights, so that the dancers triggered sounds as
they cut the light beams with their movements, and a series of antennae.
When a dancer came within four feet of an antenna a sound would result.
Cage, Tudor, and Gordon Mumma operate equipment to modify and determine
the final sounds.’ – from mediaartnet.
Dayvan Cowboy
Dayvan Cowboy (2006, 11.4MB, 4:36 min)
Boards of Canada’s first music video and a great one at that.
Utilizing some insane footage of Joseph Kittinger’s Excelsior III jump in 1960.
Directed by Melissa Olson.
Gordon Parks
What I Can Say About Gordon Parks (2006, 2.9MB, 2:28 min.)
Gordon Parks passed away last year on March 7 2006.
He was a gifted and versatile artist & his work will continue
to provide inspiration for generations to come.
By Mica Scalin.
Django and Grappelli
Hot Club of France Live (1938, 12MB, 3 min.)
A beautiful old film of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli
playing their signature Hot Club jazz.
Silas & Mange
Silas & Mange (1927, 14MB, 4 min.)
I have always had a thing for silent films.
Rob Sosin and Kevin Maher star in these twisted vignettes,
the restored (1999) films of long dead silent picture stars Silas and Mange.
from Thrillomedy.com
“Je suis Marxiste, tendence Groucho”
from ‘A Night at the Opera’ (1935, 1.6MB, 50 sec.)
from ‘A Night at the Opera’ (1935, 1.7MB, 1:19 min.)
From the excellent & mind-bogglingly comprehensive
‘Night at the Opera’ treasury, two clips from the Marx Brothers classic,
the first of which includes the best punchline ever, no argument, the best.
8 halfmile – Fellini remixed
8 halfmile (2006, 6.9MB, 2:21 min.)
“Fellini’s classic film re-mixed Eminem-style…”
by – The AV Club, from Film Threat.
Ginsberg reads from </em>Howl<em>
from Howl part 2 (1997, 7.5MB, 4:07 min)
The mighty Allen Ginsberg, buffoon, trickster, personality, conscience, catalyst
above all genuine, genuine poet; our Whitman, sometimes bad but never boring,
who in so many ways shaped ‘the best minds of his generation’,
reads from part two of ‘Howl’ shortly before his death in 1997.
From the excellent allenginsberg.org
